Word: cutler
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Economic Professor David M. Cutler said after yesterday’s meeting that although the committee is approaching this review with no set objectives, he agrees that improving the atmosphere for junior faculty is a legitimate goal...
...deal with young scholars...and our hope at the University is that they benefit from being here, that their research progresses. And so I think it’s very important for us to continually be thinking about it in a more detailed way,” Cutler said...
...Reality TV is returning to its natural home, which is the American political system," says R.J. Cutler, who produced the documentary The War Room about the 1992 Clinton campaign. Applicants will submit a petition signed by 50 people and a 30-minute video. They'll be narrowed down to a field of semifinalists of various ideologies by a panel of political experts. Then the audience will winnow the field in a process involving debates and politicking (but, please God, not Ryan Seacrest). The winner will be chosen during an on-air "convention" around July 4, then decide whether...
...rule, private-sector media companies produce government leaders only in foreign countries like Italy and New York City. But though FX's parent company, News Corp., is run by outspoken conservative Rupert Murdoch, Cutler says home viewers, not the network, will select the "people's candidate." Yes, that line sounds like p.r.-as-populism, but there are plenty of voters who have been disaffected from two-party politics. And as ex-wrestler Jesse Ventura's 1998 gubernatorial election proved, they watch cable TV. American Candidate could become a kind of de facto third party, but without a crazy, short billionaire...
...laden spectacle of illusory free choice? Sure--if that didn't pretty much describe our existing system. Anyway, it's hard to imagine a small cable channel pulling that off, though a media-sensation candidate, buoyed by free publicity, could just draw enough votes to swing a tight race. Cutler says he hopes the show at least increases participation in politics or maybe encourages an also-ran to run for Congress someday. The Guarini Administration, however, will probably have to wait--at least until we amend the Constitution to allow voting by 800 number...